Status Update for Soil Moisture Mission

Sta­tus Update for Soil Mois­ture Mission



NASA,SMAP,Soil Mois­ture Active Passive,United Launch Alliance Delta II,Vandenberg Air Force Base,News Conference



A post-launch brief­ing was held Jan. 31 to dis­cuss the launch and sta­tus of NASA’s Soil Mois­ture Active Pas­sive (SMAP) space­craft. SMAP, which launched ear­li­er the same day aboard a Unit­ed Launch Alliance Delta II rock­et from California’s Van­den­berg Air Force Base, is the first U.S. Earth-observ­ing satel­lite designed to col­lect glob­al obser­va­tions of sur­face soil mois­ture. The mission’s high res­o­lu­tion space-based mea­sure­ments of soil mois­ture will give sci­en­tists a new capa­bil­i­ty to bet­ter pre­dict nat­ur­al haz­ards of extreme weath­er and improve our under­stand­ing of Earth’s water, ener­gy and car­bon cycles.



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